{"id":242796,"date":"2026-08-17T09:03:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T14:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/how-the-department-of-war-is-rebuilding-its-innovation-edge"},"modified":"2026-08-17T09:03:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T14:03:57","slug":"how-the-department-of-war-is-rebuilding-its-innovation-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/how-the-department-of-war-is-rebuilding-its-innovation-edge","title":{"rendered":"How the Department of War Is Rebuilding Its Innovation Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-the-department-of-war-is-rebuilding-its-innovation-edge.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.govconwire.com\/govcon-experts\/chuck-brooks\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><em>Chuck Brooks<\/em><\/a><em> is the president of <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external nofollow\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brooksci.com\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"><em>Brooks Consulting International<\/em><\/a><em> and one of Executive Mosaic\u2019s <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.govconwire.com\/govcon-experts\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><em>GovCon Experts<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The United States is about to enter a new age of technical competitiveness where the rate of innovation and invention could have just as much of an impact on national security as the technology itself. Emerging technologies such as directed energy, biotechnology, autonomous systems, robotics, advanced manufacturing, artificial intelligence and quantum computing are developing concurrently and rapidly converging.<\/p>\n<p>This convergence is posing a fundamental dilemma for the Department of War: Can the government organize itself to find, develop, buy and field new technology at the same rate as the business sector and America\u2019s adversaries? A major reorganization of the Department\u2019s research, technology and innovation ecosystem is starting to reveal the solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Brooks is the president of Brooks Consulting International and one of Executive Mosaic\u2019s GovCon Experts. The United States is about to enter a new age of technical competitiveness where the rate of innovation and invention could have just as much of an impact on national security as the technology itself. Emerging technologies such as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":594,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43,1490,1617,6,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business","category-government","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/594"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}